Tomasz Kamusella, Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria. London & New York: Routledge, 2019.

Year 2020, Issue: 5, 207 - 212, 27.12.2020

Cengiz Yolcu

Abstract

The Reader in Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the author of many monographs on the nationalism, politics and political history of the central and the southeastern Europe, Tomasz Kamusella in his last book, titled Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria focuses on the expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria in 1989. Kamusella’s work reveals and tells to the reader the events little known before and indicates the mostly internationally ignored huge mass atrocity, which was committed in the heart of Europe. Starting from the spring, during the “long” summer of 1989, approximately 360,000 Muslim and Turkish citizens of People’s Republic of Bulgaria were expelled from Bulgaria to Turkey.

Keywords

forced migration, turks of bulgaria, bulgaria, ethnic cleansing, mass deportation

References

• Tomasz Kamusella, Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria. London & New York: Routledge, 2019.